2008 |
There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment
list.
~Marian Wright Edelman |
October 6: TBA
October 20: Jan M. |
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
~Vincent Van Gogh |
September 22: Book Group
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey Jan M. will lead this discussion of the book by Jill Taylor.
September 8: Remembering our Mood Elevators
Anneliese will share a meditation inspired by Stacy Julian and a place of peace meditaion by Laurel Parnell. |
Now you understand the full meaning of the word 'gratitude.'
Isn't it delicious when it just fills you up?
Hold this feeling;
it's sacred.
~Jan McBride |
August 25: Remembering our Mood Elevators
Anneliese will share a meditation inspired by Stacy Julian and a place of peace meditaion by Laurel Parnell.
August 11: Guest Leader--Anna Salamone
Anna Salamone, RN & LCSW-R, will lead us in MBCT meditation exercises to help with depression. |
Time is a very precious gift--so precious it is only given to us one moment at a time. ~Amelia Barr
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July 14: Meditative Origami
Amy N. will lead us in a paper-folding exercise.
July 28: Meditating with Difficult Emotions, Part 2
Anneliese shares a thinking mind meditation by Shinzen Young. |
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
~
Dan Zadra. |
June 23: Book Group--The Mindful Way Through Depression
1 copy is available at the Alternatives Library.
June 9: Yogic Meditation
Abby will lead us in a pranayama breathing exercise while we listen to the Shivahoram chant. |
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
~The Dalai Lama |
May 19: Meditating on the Thinking Mind
Anneliese will share a meditation by Barbara Fishman.
May 5: Mindfulness Meditation
Liz will lead us in Jon Kabat-Zinn's Nowscape meditation. |
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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Arundhati Roy |
April 21: Meditating with Difficult Emotions
Anneliese will share a meditation by Shinzen Young.
April 7 : Intuitive Meditation
Janet will share a Karla McLaren meditation. |
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
~John Muir |
March 24: Book Group
Emotional Healing Through Mindfulness Meditation by Barbara Fishman (1 copy is in the Alternatives Library.)
March 10: Heart Center Meditation
Jan M. will share a Sally Kempton meditation. |
Every man has his own patch of earth to cultivate. What’s important is that he dig deep.
~ Jose Saramago
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Feb. 25: Expanding & Contracting With the Breath
Anneliese will share a meditation by Shinzen Young.
Feb. 11: Meditation
Marie will lead us in coloring mandalas while we listen to Dr. Wayne Dyer's verses of the Tao Te Ching.
Jan 28: Spatial Awareness Meditation
Anneliese will share a Vipassana meditation by Shinzen Young.
Jan. 14: Yogic Meditation
Janice will lead us in yogic breathing and sitting meditation.
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2007
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You owe it to all of us to get on with what you're good at.
~ W.H. Auden
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Dec. 17: Mindfulness Meditation
Abby will lead us in the Svaroopa yoga Magic 4 postures and a mindfulness breathing exercise.
Dec. 3: Book Group A Woman's Book of Meditation
by Hari Kaur Khalsa (2 copies in Finger Lakes library.)
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Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
~ Marya Mannes |
Nov. 19: Buddhist Counting Meditation
Julie will share a simple yet challenging Buddhist counting meditation that is great technique for calming the mind.
Nov. 5: Tonglen Meditation
Liz will feature instruction on practicing tonglen by Beryl Bender Birch from Meditations for Everyday Mindfulness. Oct. 22: Pain Circulating Awareness Meditation
Anneliese will share a Shinzen Young meditation that helps reduce the emotional suffering that often accompanies physical pain.
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Real friends are those who, when you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel that you've done a permanent job.
~ Erwin T. Randall |
Oct. 8: Life Organizing Meditation
Anneliese will share a meditation that goes along with Jen Louden's book, The Life Organizer: A Woman's Guide to a Mindful Year: Tips, Stories, & Prompts to Focus on Your Needs & Navigate Your Dreams
Sept. 24: Walking Meditation
We'll take advantage of the fall beauty as Anneliese leads us in a walking meditation outside. Meet in 146 Myron Taylor, which is also our rain location.
Sept. 10: Chakra Sound Meditation
Back by popular demand, Janet will repeat the session she led in July to help us explore the role of sound and colorin meditation. |
If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.
~ Hans Reichenbach |
August 20: Book Group-A Life of One's Own by Marion Milner aka Joanna Fields
(1 copy is available at the Alternatives Library and 1 copy at the CU Olin library.
August 6: Yoga Sutras for Women
Janice will lead us in an exercise from the just published book, The Secret Power of Yoga : A Woman’s Guide to the Heart & Spirit of the Yoga Sutras by Nischala Joy Devi. |
An unlived life is not worth examining.
~Swami Beyondananda
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July 23: Sufi Chakra Sound Meditation
Janet will lead us as we continue our exploration of the role of sound in meditation.
July 9: Eating Meditation
Liz will lead us in a meditation from Jon Kabat-Zinn's most recent CD: Mindfulness for Beginners.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.
~Hermann Hesse |
June 18: Music and Color Meditation
Christa will lead us in this exercise from Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program.
June 4: Walking Meditation
We will walk inside if the weather doesn't allow our trip to the gorge next to Myron Taylor. Led by Anneliese. |
Have faith. Things fall apart so that things can fall together.
~ Dan Zedro
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May 21: Buddhist Meditation
We'll try out a Plum Village guided meditation with a series of phrases to say on the in and out breath, such as "Present moment; beautiful moment." Led by Anneliese.
May 7: Chanting Meditation
Using the Goddess Mantra Chants CD by Mary Marzo, Julie will lead us in a chant to Lakshmi for spiritual, physical, and material abundance. Lakshmi is the Hindu goddess of wealth, light, wisdom, the lotus flower and fortune, and secondarily of luck, beauty, courage and fertility. |
Nothing valuable
can be lost
by taking time.
~ Abraham Lincoln |
April 23: Sitting Meditation
We'll explore a Nowscape guided meditation by Jon Kabat-Zinn that focuses on the whole of one's experience while sitting, the breath and the body and the soundscape and more, rather than just one facet. Led by Anneliese.
April 9: Triannual Book Group
The Presence Process by Michael Brown
Please read p. 1-114 & bring a quote or question that brings up fear, anger or grief for you.
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Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Lao Tzu |
March 26: Feeling Fear
We'll give our compassionate attention to our experience of feeling fear while exploring a silence & bells meditation. This session, led by Anneliese, is inspired by the work of Michael Brown and the poem "Fears of Your Life" by Michael B. Loggins.
March 12: Mindful Yoga
Join us in the Edwards Room of Anabel Taylor Hall for gentle yoga in the Jon Kabat-Zinn tradition, led by Christa. |
If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
~ Mary Pickford
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Feb. 26: Unwinding with Donna DeLuca
Join is in the Edwards Room of Anabel Taylor Hall as our special guest speaker leads us in classic mindful and metta meditation practices combined with a gentle physical practice called "unwinding."
Feb.12: Presence Process
With Janet, we'll explore the Presence Process, a practice for emotional healing.
Jan. 22: Breathwork with Anneliese
By request, more breathwork; this time Anneliese will featureAmy Weintraub from Breathe to Beat the Blues.
Jan. 8: Chanting Om
Liz will feature instruction on chanting om by Beryl Bender Birch from Meditations for Everyday Mindfulness. |
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No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. ~Amelia Earhart
I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.
~ Dawna Markova
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Dec. 18: Grounding Meditations
To prepare us for the holiday season, Anneliese will feature some grounding meditations by Starhawk from her 4-CD set, Earthmagic: Sacred Rituals for Connecting to Nature's Power, available at the Alternatives Library in Anabel Taylor Hall.
Dec. 4: SRI with Renee Beck
Renee Beck, a local practitioner of Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI) techniques, will share her unique perspective on self-healing. Renee has an upcoming Women's Retreat scheduled for Feb. 23-25 at Light on the Hill (More info at http://holistichands.abmp.com/holistichands/Main/) To learn about the SRI combination of affirmations and breathing exercises to move through emotions trapped in the body, check out Donald Epstein's book, 12 Stages of Healing online or check it out from the library: http://www.tcpl.org
Nov. 6: Sitting Meditation
Christa will lead meditations from Meditation 24/7. Christa is a long-time member of the CU women's meditation circle, and this past year she also completed an 8-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction series, based on Jon Kabat-Zinn's program, and helped organize and attended Camille Maurine's meditation retreat for women.
Nov. 20: Book Group Meeting
All women are welcome to the first session of our informal quarterly book group. We'll be discussing Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything across Italy, India, and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert, focusing on her meditation experiences. Bring a quote from the book to the group that you would like to discuss! We'll do a brief meditation before we launch into discussion. (This book will come out in paperback in January. Cornell's Kroch library has one copy, and 5 copies are in the Finger Lakes library system: http://www.tcpl.org)/
October Theme: Breathwork
I am very excited by a CD set by Dr. Andrew Weil, Breathing: the Master Key to Self Healing, so I will share exercises from it this month. I found it at Alternatives Library, and it has helped me develop a 3-minute breathing routine that calms and energizes me. I find it perfect for preparing for meditation during the lunch hour or for replacing the missed lunch hour.
September Theme: Walking
In honor of our September theme, check out the new walking meditation resourcees I have added to this site. Also note that CU employees can purchase subsidized pedometers offered by CU Wellness. |
Tips |
There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment
list.
~Marian Wright Edelman
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Stressbusters
Steer yourself into a quieter space with a transitional stress-busting step, like visiting the bubblewrap-popping site, your favorite comic, or the Jackson Pollack painting site. (Tip: Click the mouse to change paint colors at the Jackson Pollack site.)
Holiday Sustainability
As we head into the dual darkness & glare of the holidays, check out these great mindfulness reminders for sustaining yourself through the season by a member of the CU Women's Meditation Circle, Cora Ellen Luke.
Making Time for Meditation Lectures
Recorded multi-disc meditation retreats or lectures can be daunting because of their length, but because you can be somewhat active while listening to them and break them up into multiple listening sessions, there are many ways to find the time. Try listening while mopping the floors & doing dishes, over the course of several weeks during your daily shower, or while on a commuter bus or a plane ride. Remember: For safety's sake, never listen to meditation exercises while you are doing an activity or driving.
Put Some Peace in Your Day
Jennifer Louden turned me on to this neat resource: PeacePulse. Jennifer says: "It's a free program that chimes on the hour to encourage you to take a moment to reflect. Knowing you are doing this with thousands of people across the world only increases the service to our planet and your own mindfulness." Also, check out Jennifer Louden's site with oodles more self-care resources for women. |